>>2985
>distorted idea of what "war" entails
Wars fought differently.
>not how large scale conflict works
We are "not there yet"
This is still in the "special operation range"
This is how no great power "declared war" since WW2. I am not arguing for the sake of arguing it's just this is still at the "diplomacy level" and not at the war level

>fantasy warfare
>in Iraq and Afghanistan
Yeah this whole "soldiers act like SWAT teams" started when the CIA started to train the rebels to fuck with the Soviet union when they were still in Afghanistan. This was the part when they thought that they "mastered" proxy wars after the Soviets left. My grandpa told me how Russians said how different is "occupation" in different countries. Here they were treated as guests and down there they got shot the moment they stepped outside. I even talked to an artillery general years ago and he said that our "Nato involvement" needs to be decreased because politicians sure love to send the soldiers to die as a "Gesture" but we are not as well equipped as the USA army. Getting shot out of nowhere by snipers in an "controlled territory" was normal.
We are anti-war for a reason. The west is talking like hot shit because they think it won't affect them.